Dynamic Vehicle First Person Camera 1.3.0

This is just an informational post - There's some bloggy stuff at the end of this post, so this'll be Patreon-only. I added a bunch of features since the alpha release over this week, and 1.3.0 is now released!

New features

• First-person aiming is now handled by the script

• Add a hotkey to switch cameras within a config

• Add a hotkey to toggle re-centering

• Horizontal and vertical sensitivity are decoupled for mouse and classic gamepad modes

• Disable heavy brake animation while in first person

• Add yaw and roll offset adjustments

• Increase range in pitch offset adjustment

• Increase range in position offset adjustment

Changes for Enhanced

• Support GTA V Enhanced

• Allow turning off some first-person rendering flags to get RT mirror reflections in Enhanced

This script remains free, check out the download on GTA5-Mods.com! The download and full changelog are available there.

Developer ramblings

Some behind-the scenes of this release...

As is usual in software development, adding a seemingly simple thing can turn into quite a bit of a headache. On the 5mods page, some users asked for hotkeys. This should be easy, but as I worked on it, it turned out to be quite the headache with how generic I wanted to do it.

From working on similar things in Manual Transmission, the code can quickly grow to be a big unmaintainable mess as more of these functions are added, e.g. functions that allow a user to change a very internal part of the program.

I spent quite a lot of my day banging my head against the wall. In the end I got a good result and it cleanly adds this functionality (or any functionality in the future) to the code without throwing in random bits and pieces. Going forward it's definitely a component I'll be re-using in my projects. Manual Transmission is a prime candidate for this, where I hopefully can use this to untangle it a bit.